Page 96 of Devious Vow

I glare at him.

“Sit,” he grunts, pointing at the floor.

“I’m not a puppy, you fucker.”

When he shrugs and looks away to take another sip from his bottle, I lean against the wall.

“Tell me something no one knows about you.”

I glance at him with an incredulous brow. “What?”

“One thing that nobody knows about you.”

I snort. “Why the fuck would I tell you that?”

“I dunno. Why do people go BASE jumping, or run with bulls?”

A smile teases the corners of my lips. Slowly, I slide to the floor, quickly draping my jacket over my legs when I realize how short my skirt is.

“Rain check on divulging my secrets to you?”

“I’ll mark my calendar.”

The tension and the panic are melting away a little.

Wow, how the hell did he do that?

“Want a drink?”

I shrug. “Fine.”

“Apparently manners weren’t part of your princess classes,” he growls, passing me the whiskey.

I sigh. “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Thanks for lying about me fucking sexually assaulting you and almost getting me kicked out of school and blacklisted from a fuckton of law schools.” He gives me a sarcastic thumbs up. “Really. Thanks for that.”

My heart twists as I look down at my hands. “I said I was sorry,” I mumble.

“Are you, though?”

I nod. “Yeah. Truly. That was shitty.”

We’re both silent for a minute, him taking a drink, then passing the bottle to me. My phone’s battery dies and I groan, not that I had service anyway. I swallow a gulp of whiskey and pass the bottle back to him. Alistair coughs lightly.

“In fairness, I did, you know.”

I frown as I look up at him. “Did what?”

“Earlier, you said that when I broke into your dorm room I could have walked in on you changing. I did. But you…ahh…weren’t changing.”

My face scrunches. “I don’t know what?—”

Then it clicks, and my face explodes with heat.

“YOU—!”

He waggles his brows.

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